Professional Pilot, March 2016
AIRCRAFT SALES GAMA shows 2015 tallies for deliveries and dollars drop for pistons TPs helos and bizjets 06 718 22 PROFESSIONAL PILOT March 2016 By Pro Pilot staff 2015 Piston airplanes Shipments 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 65 1056 2015 Turbine Rotorcraft Shipments billings Shipments Billings 219 39 B 89 675 2013 2014 2015 2013 2014 2015 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 600 525 450 375 300 225 150 075 000 US Billions 2015 Turboprop Billings 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 700 600 500 400 300 200 250 200 150 100 050 000 108 165 B US Billions 2015 Turboprop Shipments 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 100 0 76 557 2015 Business jet Shipments 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 2015 Business jet Billings 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 25 20 15 10 5 0 5 209 B US Billions Aaron Hilkemann GAMA chairman and also Duncan Aviation president and CEO L along with Pete Bunce GAMA pres CEO presented 2015 figures and answered aviation press questions State of the GA Industry meet on Feb 10 at DC Newseum showed worldwide GA airplane shipments during 2015 fell 5 from 2454 units in 2014 to 2331 Overall GA billings dropped 52 from 245 billion in 2014 to 232 B Worldwide helicopter shipments fell 44 from 998 units in 2014 to 954 in 2015 with billings down 219 from 49 B to 38 B Figures were provided by GAMA Chairman Aaron Hilkemann who is also president and CEO of Duncan Aviation along with GAMA President and CEO Pete Bunce Shipments of piston airplanes fell for the first time since 2010 down 65 from 1129 in 2014 to 1056 in 2015 Turboprop shipments also dipped going from 603 in 2014 to 557 in 2015 a 76 drop Bizjet shipments dropped 06 from 722 in 2014 to 718 in 2015 Deliveries of piston helicopters mainly Robinson rose 86 from 257 in 2014 to 279 in 2015 Turbine helicopter shipments softened from 741 in 2014 to 675 last year with the drop in turbine helo sales due to lack of need for more offshore helos because of the oil glut Source GAMA 2015 Preliminary pending Finmeccanica Helicoppters
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